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Definition of Copse
1. Noun. A dense growth of bushes.
Generic synonyms: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Specialized synonyms: Brake, Canebrake, Spinney, Underbrush, Undergrowth, Underwood
Derivative terms: Brushy
Definition of Copse
1. n. A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
2. v. t. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
Definition of Copse
1. Noun. A thicket of small trees or shrubs. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive horticulture) To trim or cut. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive horticulture) To plant and preserve. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copse
1. a coppice [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copse
Literary usage of Copse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature Near London by Richard JEFFERIES (1883)
"ROUND A LONDON copse. IN October a party of wood-pigeons took up their residence
in the little copse which has been previously mentioned. ..."
2. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"These beauties appear rarely in the copse. Instead of that rich and tufted bed
of foliage, which the distant forest exhibits, the copse presents a meagre ..."
3. English Trees and Tree-planting by William H. Ablett (1880)
"copse-WOOD, or coppice, is cultivated very often for widely different reasons,
... There are many situations in rural scenery when copse-wood possesses ..."
4. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"Conversion of Coppice and copse into Highwood is often desirable. Good saplings
from seed or suckers, and the best-grown stool-shoots, should be selected at ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"See copse. Cop'pinger, John Joseph, American military officer: b. Ireland n Oct.
1834. After obtaining a military education in Ireland he went to Rome, ..."
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